The phrase "exercising punishment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the act of administering or enforcing punishment.
Example: "The school has strict policies for exercising punishment on students who violate the code of conduct."
Alternatives: "administering punishment" or "imposing punishment".
In a letter to state officials, the group noted that youths who spent time at the ranch reported to the police that children there "are routinely hit, shackled and handcuffed, deprived of food, deprived of full days of public instruction every school day, and forced to exercise as punishment".
Their $18 million donation last year to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) came under harsh criticism from human rights observers, who noted the dangers in helping to convict more people in a country that still exercises capital punishment.
Mandatory sentencing laws prevent judges from taking into account all the circumstances of a case and exercising discretion over the punishment.
B1 Court Rules Out an Execution New York's highest court ruled that Darrel K. Harris, the first person condemned under the 1995 death penalty statute, cannot be executed for the murders of three people in Brooklyn in 1997 because the law at the time of his conviction unfairly threatened him with capital punishment for exercising his right to a trial.
"The U.N. Working Group held that the detention violated international law because Gao's disappearance was punishment for exercising his fundamental human rights and because the government failed to meet even the minimum international standards for due process," the group said in its statement.
Our empowerment and liberation is still new, don't give up the fight..@realDonaldTrump has said women should face "punishment" for exercising their constitutional right to abortion.
Scores on the final area can vary between 2-15, whigherigher numbers indicate more punishment for exercising.
His policy was to support the native states and chieftainships, their laws and their courts, forbidding slave raiding and cruel punishments and exercising control centrally through the native rulers.
As a Dominion officer, however, Williams found that he was not permitted to "exercise powers of punishment over British personnel", leading to him being temporarily "granted a supplementary commission in the Royal Air Force".
Sadly, exercises in punishment without charge or trial continued under the coalition and then Conservative governments.
